Merger Brings Together Two Big Translated-literature Awards
“…the new MBI seeks not just to reward individual authors but to encourage an ecology of translation…”
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Editing Classical Arabic Texts: It’s Not Just Making Buggy Whips
“What people in our field often do is they duck, sort of like George Bush with the shoe.”
After Freezing Activities in Egypt, ‘The Cultural Resource’ Reopens Today in Lebanon
“The launch ceremony, which will reportedly be preceded by a biannual meeting of the board, will host performances by Lebanese musicians Mike Massy and Charbel Haber, as well as a screening of Ahmed Khaled’s ‘White Sugar’.”
Portraits of Americans in Arabic Literature
“Now the Americans have occupied it and surrounded it with walls and checkpoints; our new rulers can live far away from us.”
Shortlist Announced for 2015 MEMO Palestine Book Awards
The shortlist is an eclectic bunch and includes a graphic novel, essay collection, two histories, two memoirs, and a novel.
July 2015: Arab and Arabic Literary Events Calendar
A calendar of Arab and Arabic literary events in some form of translation.
A Comparative Balancing Act: Arabic Literature Is from Mars, English Literature from Venus
“Seen from the point of view of not just the California student, this is literature from Mars. It is absolutely and radically alien.”
TV Series Sympathetic to Egyptian Jews Follows in Literature’s Path
“…the show has ‘astonished Egyptians with its sympathetic treatment of Egypt’s Jews and its depiction of their fierce anti-Zionism.'”
Egypt to ‘Purge and Confiscate’ at Mosque Libraries
“…in order to purge them of books that call for fundamentalism and extremism, and call for the opposite of moderate Islam.”